After the angel of the Lord tells the parents of Samson about his impending birth, I was amused at the reaction:
Judges 13:22 "We are doomed to die!" he (Samsons to-be dad) said to his wife. "We have seen God!"
23 But his wife answered, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this."
Samson's to be dad has a very emotional response, and the wife a very logical one.
Samson's first wife (not Delilah) gets an answer to a riddle/bet out of Samson and so it turns out that Samson loses the bet and owes 30 outfits of clothing. To pay this debt he kills 30 guys and takes their clothing. Don't mind the bloodstains. I think if he's asked, he probably could have gotten the clothes without killing the people, but that's just the way he went.
The first wife gets given away to one of Samson's friends and when Samson evidently gets over the treachery and goes back for her he's not too impressed that she was given away, because as we see later, he can forgive the treachery of a woman. So he burns the crops of the Philistines using foxes. Then the Philistines burn the first wife and her father for causing Samson to be angry.
And this fiery man is the leader of Israel. There's something to be said for fiery.
Then he 'fell in love' with Delilah. What does this mean? She evidently didn't feel the same for him, as she just wants to get his secret out.
She uses her womanly ways on him:
Judges 16:15 Then she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you won't confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven't told me the secret of your great strength." 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was tired to death.
17 So he told her everything.
He made a fool out of HER? Surely it was her making a fool out of HIM. Interesting how she turns it around.
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